Andrew Benton wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:09:11 +0100
> Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> At the moment, I'm hoping *most* of these packages need glib2.
>
> I think most of them do need Glib2, but there will be some that don't.
>> I'm still more interested in fixing systemd for udev-only, despite
>> your willingness to do without udev.
>
> Just out of curiosity, why are people so keen to cling onto Udev? I
> remember before udev we had to use /sbin/hotplug for things like
> loading firmware and dynamically creating device nodes and it didn't
> work very well. Now we can compile firmware into the kernel and the
> kernel can create device nodes automagically. I was surprised how easy
> it was to remove udev and I'm happier with 1 less daemon running
Isn't the whole purpose of udev to set things like users and groups to
custom values and run some programs when a specific device is detected?
I don't think the kernel does that. udev just provides finer control,
although I agree that in some cases it's not needed.
>> To be honest, people using gtk{2,3} will encounter the need to build
>> glib2 fairly soo after they've built xorg. It's less-used builds
>> (perhaps kde) that will take longer to identify b0rken dependencies.
>
> But what about the issue of people who are using an LFS 7.1 system and
> don't have Pkg-config installed? Should we put a note mentioning the
> need for Pkg-config or just assume that everyone is using current LFS
> SVN?
We are going to leave pkg-config in blfs for now and sync it with the
lfs version. A note saying that it's already in lfs-svn-20120603 and
later will smooth the transition.
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